US Patent Issued to Hella Corporate Center USA, University of Tennessee Research Foundation on May 6 for "Integrated on-board charger and auxiliary power module using a triple active bridge for electric vehicles" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,294, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hella Corporate Center USA Inc. (Northville, Mich.) and University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Integrated on-board charger and auxiliary power module using a triple active bridge for electric vehicles" was invented by Liyan Zhu (Knoxville, Tenn.), Alan W. Brown (Canton, Mich.), Hua Bai (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Lukas Michael Keuck (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion system including a triple active bridge (TAB) is provided. The system includes a power factor correction (PFC) module and a three port converter (TPC) module, with no post-regul...